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How do you write 3/7 as a terminating or repeating decimal?

Answer 1

A repeating decimal can be indicated in a number of ways (you might want to see which format your instructor prefers).

#3/7# expressed as a decimal fraction is a repeating decimal with a fairly long (7 digit) pattern before repeating (you can verify this by long division.

One form of expressing this repeating pattern is #3/7 = 0.428571[428571...]#

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Answer 2

Ethan Adkins

To write 3/7 as a decimal, you perform long division. The decimal representation of 3/7 is 0.428571..., which repeats indefinitely.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.